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  1. Helsinki Birder

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    One of those clichés which again, I never understood. You drive a car, you don't ride a horse anymore. You have a smartphone, because no one has a landline anymore. We "mend" things that work all the time, because...well ...time moves on. Owen
  2. Helsinki Birder

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Age related perhaps...but I've never called it Hume's Yellow-Browed. It was always Hume's to me. Same for people younger. With the impending re-lump of Balearic and Yelkouan, I've heard people say they will never call it anything but Balearic on a seawatch...I started out with Med Shear...
  3. Helsinki Birder

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I believe you have that reversed. 🙂 Owen
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